Automating Google Workspace (GWS) & more with Apps Script
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45-60 minute session deck from introducing Google Apps Script to developers, IT leadership, and other technical professionals.
![Accessing maps from
spreadsheets?!?
goo.gl/oAzBN9
This… with help from Google Maps & Gmail
function sendMap() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var address = sheet.getRange("A2").getValue();
var map = Maps.newStaticMap().addMarker(address);
GmailApp.sendEmail('friend@example.com', 'Map',
'See below.', {attachments:[map]});
}
JS
g.co/codelabs/apps-script-intro](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/masstro88-240502042701-61efc9bc/85/Automating-Google-Workspace-GWS-more-with-Apps-Script-25-320.jpg)
![var NAME = "My favorite images";
var deck = SlidesApp.getActivePresentation();
function addImageSlide(link, index) {
var slide = deck.appendSlide(SlidesApp.PredefinedLayout.BLANK);
var image = slide.insertImage(link);
}
function main() {
var images = [
"http://www.google.com/services/images/phone-animation-results_2x.png",
"http://www.google.com/services/images/section-work-card-img_2x.jpg",
"http://gsuite.google.com/img/icons/product-lockup.png",
"http://gsuite.google.com/img/home-hero_2x.jpg",
];
var [title, subtitle] = deck.getSlides()[0].getPageElements();
title.asShape().getText().setText(NAME);
subtitle.asShape().getText().setText("Google Apps ScriptnSlides Service demo");
images.forEach(addImageSlide);
}
Introducing
Slides Add-ons
goo.gl/sYL5AM
Generating Google Slides from images
Expense
reports...
● Expense reports
● Can't we do them
without leaving Gmail?
● On Web AND mobile?](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/masstro88-240502042701-61efc9bc/85/Automating-Google-Workspace-GWS-more-with-Apps-Script-28-320.jpg)
!["Hello World" (echo bot)
JavaScript: Google Apps Script
function onMessage(m) {
return {
'text': 'Hi ' + m.sender.displayName + '. You sent: ' + m.text,
'thread': {'name': m.thread.name}
};
}
Google Chat bots
goo.gl/jt3FqK
function onMessage(e) {
return createMessage(e.user.displayName, 0);
}
function onCardClick(e) {
// Create a new vote card when 'NEW' button is clicked.
if (e.action.actionMethodName === 'newvote') {
return createMessage(e.user.displayName, 0);
}
// Updates the card in-place when '+1' or '-1' button is clicked.
var voteCount = +e.action.parameters[0].value;
e.action.actionMethodName === 'upvote' ? ++voteCount : --voteCount;
return createMessage(e.user.displayName, voteCount, true);
}
Simple vote bot
JavaScript: Google Apps Script](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/masstro88-240502042701-61efc9bc/85/Automating-Google-Workspace-GWS-more-with-Apps-Script-31-320.jpg)
![}, {
textButton: {
text: '-1',
onClick: {
action: {
actionMethodName: 'downvote',
parameters: parameters
}
}
}
}, {
textButton: {
text: 'NEW',
onClick: {
action: {
actionMethodName: 'newvote'
}
}
}
}]
}]
}]
}]
};
}
function createMessage(voter, voteCount, shouldUpdate) {
var parameters = [{key: 'count', value: voteCount.toString()}];
return {
actionResponse: {
type: shouldUpdate ? 'UPDATE_MESSAGE' : 'NEW_MESSAGE'
},
cards: [{
header: {
title: 'Last vote by ' + voter + '!'
},
sections: [{
widgets: [{
textParagraph: {
text: voteCount + ' votes!'
}
}, {
buttons: [{
textButton: {
text: '+1',
onClick: {
action: {
actionMethodName: 'upvote',
parameters: parameters
}
}
}
Google Chat bots
goo.gl/jt3FqK
Vote bot interactive card
● Job: track your corporate
video performance
● Do you really want to go to
every video on YouTube &
write down the view count?
● NO WAY! Automate stats
gathering with Apps Script!
A day at the office counting up YouTube statistics
Automating YT stats
goo.gl/nKfBQi
goo.gl/SVxoCt](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/masstro88-240502042701-61efc9bc/85/Automating-Google-Workspace-GWS-more-with-Apps-Script-32-320.jpg)
![function getVideoInfo() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var vid = sheet.getRange("A2").getValue();
var data = YouTube.Videos.list(
'snippet, statistics', {id: vid});
var item = data.items[0];
var info = [
item.snippet.title, item.statistics.viewCount];
sheet.getRange("B2:C2").setValues([info]);
}
Automating YouTube stats with Apps Script
const PROMPT = 'Describe a cat in a few sentences';
const MODEL = 'gemini-pro';
const scriptProperties = PropertiesService.getScriptProperties();
const apiKey = scriptProperties.getProperty('API_KEY');
const GEM_API_URL = 'https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/' +
`v1beta/models/${MODEL}:generateContent?key=${apiKey}`;
function helloGemini() {
console.log(`** GenAI text: "${MODEL}" model & prompt "${PROMPT}"`);
const payload = {contents: [{parts: [{text: PROMPT}]}]};
const options = {payload: JSON.stringify(payload), contentType: "application/json"};
const response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(GEM_API_URL, options);
const obj = JSON.parse(response.getContentText());
if (obj.candidates.length > 0 && obj.candidates[0].content.parts.length > 0) {
console.log(obj.candidates[0].content.parts[0].text);
}
}
Google AI: Gemini API (Apps Script)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/masstro88-240502042701-61efc9bc/85/Automating-Google-Workspace-GWS-more-with-Apps-Script-33-320.jpg)
![Supercharge Workspace (G Suite) with GCP
Workspace (G Suite) GCP
BigQuery
Apps Script
Slides Sheets
Application
request
Big data
analytics
App summary
● Leverage GCP and build the "final mile" with Google Workspace (formerly G Suite)
● Driven by Google Apps Script
● Google BigQuery for data analysis
● Google Sheets for visualization
● Google Slides for presentable results
● "Glued" together w/Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) serverless
● Build this app (codelab): g.co/codelabs/bigquery-sheets-slides
● Video and blog post: bit.ly/2OcptaG
● Application source code: github.com/googlecodelabs/bigquery-sheets-slides
● Presented at Google Cloud NEXT (Jul 2018 [DEV229] & Apr 2019 [DEV212])
● cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/sf/sessions/session/156878
● cloud.withgoogle.com/next/sf/sessions?session=DEV212](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/masstro88-240502042701-61efc9bc/85/Automating-Google-Workspace-GWS-more-with-Apps-Script-39-320.jpg)
![Apps Script references + next steps
● Introductory Apps Script codelab
○ g.co/codelabs/apps-script-intro
● Creating your own (custom) functions
○ developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/sheets/functions
● Developer videos, guides, and tutorials
○ developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/videos
● High-level introductory video
○ youtu.be/xDovB0pu4OU
● Official documentation site
○ developers.google.com/apps-script
● Alternative: Google Workspace APIs
○ developers.google.com/gsuite
Other Google APIs & platforms
● GCP (cloud-based compute, storage, networking, AI/ML, data analysis tools!)
○ cloud.google.com
● Firebase (mobile development platform and RT DB plus ML-Kit)
○ firebase.google.com and firebase.google.com/docs/ml-kit
● Google Data Studio (data visualization, dashboards, etc.)
○ datastudio.google.com/overview
○ goo.gle/datastudio-course
● Actions on Google/Assistant/DialogFlow (voice apps)
○ developers.google.com/actions
● YouTube (Data, Analytics, and Livestreaming APIs)
○ developers.google.com/youtube
● Google Maps (Maps, Routes, and Places APIs)
○ developers.google.com/maps
● Flutter (native apps [Android, iOS, web] w/1 code base[!])
○ flutter.dev](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/masstro88-240502042701-61efc9bc/85/Automating-Google-Workspace-GWS-more-with-Apps-Script-43-320.jpg)
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- 1. Automating Google Workspace (GWS) & more with Apps Script: Making the most of Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Chat & other services Wesley Chun - @wescpy@ Principal, CyberWeb 3 Principal Consultant, CyberWeb ● Mission: produce accelerated Python developers, enable developers to be successful using Google Cloud and other Google developer tools & APIs ● Focus: Python, Google Cloud (GCP) & Google Workspace (GWS) APIs; GAE migrations; Google X-product sol'ns ● Services: technical consulting, training, engineering, speaking, code samples, hands-on tutorials, public technical content (blogs, social, etc.) About the speaker Previous experience / background ● Software Engineer & Developer Advocate ○ Google, Sun, HP, Cisco, EMC, Xilinx & ○ Original Yahoo!Mail engineer/SWE ● Technical trainer, teacher, instructor ○ Teaching Math, Linux, Python since '83 ○ Adjunct CS Faculty at local SV colleges ● Python community member ○ Popular Core Python series author ○ Python Software Foundation Fellow ● AB (Math/CS) & CMP (Music/Piano), UC Berkeley and MSCS, UC Santa Barbara ● Adjunct Computer Science Faculty, Foothill College (Silicon Valley) GWS Dev Show goo.gl/JpBQ40 GAE migration bit.ly/3xk2Swi
- 2. Apps Script: why & agenda ● Google provides APIs giving programmatic access to its technologies ○ Its use can be challenging: REST, OAuth2, HTTP, authentication, etc. ● Apps Script: a developer "tool for everyone;" high-level API access ○ "Low code" solution via customized serverless, JavaScript runtime ○ Lets you automate & extend GWS, and ultimately, get the job done Cloud computing review 1 Google serverless platforms 2 Introduction to Apps Script 3 Coding with Apps Script 4 5 Advanced topics 7 Wrap-up 6 Inspiration 01 Cloud computing overview All you need to know about the cloud
- 3. What is cloud computing? spar Google Compute Engine, Cloud Storage AWS EC2 & S3; Rackspace; Joyent Cloud service levels/"pillars" SaaS Software as a Service PaaS Platform as a Service IaaS Infrastructure as a Service Google BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Vertex AI, Cloud Datastore, NL, Vision, Pub/Sub AWS Kinesis, RDS; Windows Azure SQL, Docker Google Apps Script Salesforce Platform (formerly force.com) Google Workspace (was G Suite/Google Apps) Yahoo!Mail, Hotmail, Salesforce, Netsuite, Office 365 Google App Engine, Cloud Functions Heroku, Cloud Foundry, Engine Yard, AWS Lambda
- 4. Google Compute Engine, Cloud Storage AWS EC2 & S3; Rackspace; Joyent Outsourcing of apps (SaaS) SaaS Software as a Service PaaS Platform as a Service IaaS Infrastructure as a Service Google BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Vertex AI, Cloud Datastore, NL, Vision, Pub/Sub AWS Kinesis, RDS; Windows Azure SQL, Docker Google Apps Script Salesforce Platform (formerly force.com) Google App Engine, Cloud Functions Heroku, Cloud Foundry, Engine Yard, AWS Lambda Google Workspace (was G Suite/Google Apps) Yahoo!Mail, Hotmail, Salesforce, Netsuite, Office 365 Google Compute Engine, Cloud Storage AWS EC2 & S3; Rackspace; Joyent Outsourcing of hardware (IaaS) SaaS Software as a Service PaaS Platform as a Service IaaS Infrastructure as a Service Google BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Vertex AI, Cloud Datastore, NL, Vision, Pub/Sub AWS Kinesis, RDS; Windows Azure SQL, Docker Google Apps Script Salesforce Platform (formerly force.com) Google Workspace (was G Suite/Google Apps) Yahoo!Mail, Hotmail, Salesforce, Netsuite, Office 365 Google App Engine, Cloud Functions Heroku, Cloud Foundry, Engine Yard, AWS Lambda
- 5. Google Compute Engine, Cloud Storage AWS EC2 & S3; Rackspace; Joyent Outsourcing of logic-hosting (PaaS) SaaS Software as a Service PaaS Platform as a Service IaaS Infrastructure as a Service Google BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Vertex AI, Cloud Datastore, NL, Vision, Pub/Sub AWS Kinesis, RDS; Windows Azure SQL, Docker Google Apps Script Salesforce Platform (formerly force.com) Google Workspace (was G Suite/Google Apps) Yahoo!Mail, Hotmail, Salesforce, Netsuite, Office 365 Google App Engine, Cloud Functions Heroku, Cloud Foundry, Engine Yard, AWS Lambda Google BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Vertex AI, Cloud Datastore, NL, Vision, Pub/Sub AWS Kinesis, RDS; Windows Azure SQL, Docker Google Compute Engine, Cloud Storage AWS EC2 & S3; Rackspace; Joyent IaaS/PaaS gray area (DataB/S/P-aaS?) SaaS Software as a Service PaaS Platform as a Service IaaS Infrastructure as a Service Google Apps Script Salesforce Platform (formerly force.com) Google Workspace (was G Suite/Google Apps) Yahoo!Mail, Hotmail, Salesforce, Netsuite, Office 365 Google App Engine, Cloud Functions Heroku, Cloud Foundry, Engine Yard, AWS Lambda
- 6. Google Compute Engine, Cloud Storage AWS EC2 & S3; Rackspace; Joyent SaaS/PaaS gray area SaaS Software as a Service PaaS Platform as a Service IaaS Infrastructure as a Service Google BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Vertex AI, Cloud Datastore, NL, Vision, Pub/Sub AWS Kinesis, RDS; Windows Azure SQL, Docker Google Workspace (was G Suite/Google Apps) Yahoo!Mail, Hotmail, Salesforce, Netsuite, Office 365 Google App Engine, Cloud Functions Heroku, Cloud Foundry, Engine Yard, AWS Lambda Google Apps Script Salesforce Platform (formerly force.com) Summary of responsibility SaaS Software as a Service Applications Data Runtime Middleware OS Virtualization Servers Storage Networking Applications Data Runtime Middleware OS Virtualization Servers Storage Networking IaaS Infrastructure as a Service Applications Data Runtime Middleware OS Virtualization Servers Storage Networking PaaS Platform as a Service Managed by YOU Managed by cloud vendor Applications Data Runtime Middleware OS Virtualization Servers Storage Networking on-prem all you, no cloud
- 7. 02 Google serverless compute platforms GCP & GWS formerly ( )
- 8. ● GWS developer home: developers.google.com/gsuite ● GWS developer intro: youtu.be/NqumcYgj5LI ● GWS REST APIs: youtu.be/2VpvWhDdXsI ● GWS Apps Script: youtu.be/xDovB0pu4OU ● Comprehensive overview: youtu.be/kkp0aNGlynw Google Workspace (formerly G Suite and Google Apps) (GWS) APIs Know your serverless compute platforms ● Google App Engine — deploy source-based web applications or mobile backends to the cloud without concerns of servers or autoscaling (PaaS—app-hosting in the cloud) ● Cloud Functions — for scenarios where you may not have an entire app; great for microservices, one-off utilities, or event-driven functions (FaaS/PaaS—function-hosting in the cloud) ● Cloud Run — serverless containers (any language, library, binary) along with convenience of serverless; use with Docker or "containerless" w/Cloud Buildpacks (CaaS—container-hosting in the cloud) ● Google Apps Script — Customized JavaScript runtime for automation, and extension & integration with Workspace plus other Google & external services ("restricted" PaaS)
- 9. Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage AWS EC2 & S3; Rackspace; Joyent SaaS Software as a Service PaaS Platform as a Service IaaS Infrastructure as a Service Google Workspace (was G Suite/Google Apps) Yahoo!Mail, Hotmail, Salesforce, Netsuite, Office 365 Google App Engine, Cloud Functions Heroku, Cloud Foundry, Engine Yard, AWS Lambda Google BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Datastore, NL, Vision, Pub/Sub AWS Kinesis, RDS; Windows Azure SQL, Docker Serverless: PaaS-y compute/processing Google Apps Script Salesforce Platform (formerly force.com) 03 Introduction to Google Apps Script Automate & extend Workspace apps and other Google & external services
- 11. JS But it's not your Daddy's JavaScript... Google Apps Script is a serverless JavaScript runtime for automation, and extension & integration with Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), Google, or other external services.
- 12. What can you do with Apps Script? Simple, < 10 lines Complex, > 1000 lines Sheets function Web app that sends email, creates calendar invites, & sends out customized docs Anything in between For Google services...
- 13. … each is a JavaScript class Workspace, other Google, and external services Google Workspace Admin SDK Calendar Classroom Contacts Docs Drive Forms Gmail Groups Sites Sheets Tasks Other Google services AdSense Analytics BigQuery Data Studio Doubleclick Campaigns Maps Mirror (Glass) People Shopping Content Tag Manager Translate (Language) YouTube External services UrlFetch JDBC … and more…
- 14. Types of Apps Scripts ● Standalone scripts ○ script.google.com ○ Drive: +New ⇒ More ⇒ Google Apps Script ● Add-ons and document-bound scripts ○ Extensions ⇒ Apps Script ○ Extensions ⇒ Add-ons ⇒ Get/Manage add-ons ● Simple web apps and classic Sites-bound gadgets ○ More ⇒ Manage Site ⇒ Apps Script ⇒ Add new script Document-bound scripts Tied to specific documents, i.e., Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms. Calls unique to doc types: ● getActiveCell() — Sheets ● getCursor() — Docs ● createPresentation() — Slides Add-ons: specific type of document- bound scripts. Gmail is special. Gmail Add-ons not tied to documents but individual email threads.
- 15. Use case categories Enterprise workflows Resource management Automation Reporting Third-party integrations Domain administration Document approval, purchase orders Timekeeping, helpdesk, project tracking, billing Calendaring, mail merge, complex spreadsheets Dashboards, automated report generation CRM, accounting, marketing, telephony, HR, social User management, provisioning, and reset Teachers’ tools(i.e., GFormIt, Flubaroo, Doctopus)
- 16. Automation(i.e., mail merge) Enterprise workflow(i.e., team OoO calendars)
- 17. Productize & distribute “Our online diagram application makes it easy to sketch and share professional flowchart diagrams. That’s why millions of users choose Lucidchart.” ● lucidchart.com ● cloud.google.com/blog/products/appli cation-development/q-behind-scenes -with-lucidchart ● lucidchart.com/blog/announcing- lucidchart-diagrams-for-google-slides Diagram & drawing tool
- 18. 04 Coding with Apps Script Basic scripts & custom functions Good spreadsheet software...
- 19. … has useful functions Spreadsheets… any magic functions?
- 20. Sure, how about GOOGLEFINANCE()? Spreadsheets… can you code them?
- 21. Sure, if you know where to look... “Hello World!” in Apps Script
- 22. Sheets-bound “Hello World!” Apps Script intro goo.gl/1sXeuD t.co/rqHT2gYN6z Leverage Google-only functionality
- 23. But I want (to write) my own function! Creating my own ("custom") function! Bitcoin sample bit.ly/2kMbH1C
- 24. Woo-hoo… using my own function! What can you do with this?
- 25. Accessing maps from spreadsheets?!? goo.gl/oAzBN9 This… with help from Google Maps & Gmail function sendMap() { var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet(); var address = sheet.getRange("A2").getValue(); var map = Maps.newStaticMap().addMarker(address); GmailApp.sendEmail('[email protected]', 'Map', 'See below.', {attachments:[map]}); } JS g.co/codelabs/apps-script-intro
- 26. 05 Advanced topics Add-ons, Chat bots/apps, Advanced services, UrlFetch, etc. ● Extend functionality of GWS apps ● Embed your app within Google's! ● 2014: Google Docs, Sheets, Forms ● 2017: Google Slides, Gmail ● 2018: Google Chat (apps/bots) ● Apps Script also powers Looker/Data Studio community connectors, and Google Ads scripts Apps Script powers add-ons… and more!
- 27. Converting bound script to add-on // When the document is opened... function onOpen(e) { DocumentApp.getUi().createAddonMenu() .addItem('Start', 'showSidebar') .addToUi(); } // When the add-on is installed... function onInstall(e) { onOpen(e); } // Open sidebar in document with add-on UI function showSidebar() { var ui = HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile('Sidebar') .setTitle('Translate'); DocumentApp.getUi().showSidebar(ui); } // ...everything else in your document-bound script... Developer caveat ● Understand authorization lifecycle ● developers.google.com/apps-script/add-ons/lifecycle Generating Google Slides from images
- 28. var NAME = "My favorite images"; var deck = SlidesApp.getActivePresentation(); function addImageSlide(link, index) { var slide = deck.appendSlide(SlidesApp.PredefinedLayout.BLANK); var image = slide.insertImage(link); } function main() { var images = [ "http://www.google.com/services/images/phone-animation-results_2x.png", "http://www.google.com/services/images/section-work-card-img_2x.jpg", "http://gsuite.google.com/img/icons/product-lockup.png", "http://gsuite.google.com/img/home-hero_2x.jpg", ]; var [title, subtitle] = deck.getSlides()[0].getPageElements(); title.asShape().getText().setText(NAME); subtitle.asShape().getText().setText("Google Apps ScriptnSlides Service demo"); images.forEach(addImageSlide); } Introducing Slides Add-ons goo.gl/sYL5AM Generating Google Slides from images Expense reports... ● Expense reports ● Can't we do them without leaving Gmail? ● On Web AND mobile?
- 29. ● At your desk or on the road ● One place to complete your expense report ● One code base Gmail Add-ons Expediting expense reports goo.gl/KUVCDu ● Not just for conversations ● Create microservice utilities ● Build chat bots to... ○ Automate workflows ○ Query for information ○ Other heavy-lifting ● Plain text or rich UI "cards" ● Very flexible ("any") development environment ○ POST to HTTP port Google Chat bots (bot framework & API)
- 30. “I got to work deploying a light-weight Flask app server… and in less than an hour had a working chatbot.” Greg Meyers, Motorola Solutions CIO goo.gl/1QeG51 Build bots for anyone, your org or your team… FAST Traditional API workflow Traditional APIs vs. Bot architecture OAuth2 Bot architecture
- 31. "Hello World" (echo bot) JavaScript: Google Apps Script function onMessage(m) { return { 'text': 'Hi ' + m.sender.displayName + '. You sent: ' + m.text, 'thread': {'name': m.thread.name} }; } Google Chat bots goo.gl/jt3FqK function onMessage(e) { return createMessage(e.user.displayName, 0); } function onCardClick(e) { // Create a new vote card when 'NEW' button is clicked. if (e.action.actionMethodName === 'newvote') { return createMessage(e.user.displayName, 0); } // Updates the card in-place when '+1' or '-1' button is clicked. var voteCount = +e.action.parameters[0].value; e.action.actionMethodName === 'upvote' ? ++voteCount : --voteCount; return createMessage(e.user.displayName, voteCount, true); } Simple vote bot JavaScript: Google Apps Script
- 32. }, { textButton: { text: '-1', onClick: { action: { actionMethodName: 'downvote', parameters: parameters } } } }, { textButton: { text: 'NEW', onClick: { action: { actionMethodName: 'newvote' } } } }] }] }] }] }; } function createMessage(voter, voteCount, shouldUpdate) { var parameters = [{key: 'count', value: voteCount.toString()}]; return { actionResponse: { type: shouldUpdate ? 'UPDATE_MESSAGE' : 'NEW_MESSAGE' }, cards: [{ header: { title: 'Last vote by ' + voter + '!' }, sections: [{ widgets: [{ textParagraph: { text: voteCount + ' votes!' } }, { buttons: [{ textButton: { text: '+1', onClick: { action: { actionMethodName: 'upvote', parameters: parameters } } } Google Chat bots goo.gl/jt3FqK Vote bot interactive card ● Job: track your corporate video performance ● Do you really want to go to every video on YouTube & write down the view count? ● NO WAY! Automate stats gathering with Apps Script! A day at the office counting up YouTube statistics Automating YT stats goo.gl/nKfBQi goo.gl/SVxoCt
- 33. function getVideoInfo() { var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet(); var vid = sheet.getRange("A2").getValue(); var data = YouTube.Videos.list( 'snippet, statistics', {id: vid}); var item = data.items[0]; var info = [ item.snippet.title, item.statistics.viewCount]; sheet.getRange("B2:C2").setValues([info]); } Automating YouTube stats with Apps Script const PROMPT = 'Describe a cat in a few sentences'; const MODEL = 'gemini-pro'; const scriptProperties = PropertiesService.getScriptProperties(); const apiKey = scriptProperties.getProperty('API_KEY'); const GEM_API_URL = 'https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/' + `v1beta/models/${MODEL}:generateContent?key=${apiKey}`; function helloGemini() { console.log(`** GenAI text: "${MODEL}" model & prompt "${PROMPT}"`); const payload = {contents: [{parts: [{text: PROMPT}]}]}; const options = {payload: JSON.stringify(payload), contentType: "application/json"}; const response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(GEM_API_URL, options); const obj = JSON.parse(response.getContentText()); if (obj.candidates.length > 0 && obj.candidates[0].content.parts.length > 0) { console.log(obj.candidates[0].content.parts[0].text); } } Google AI: Gemini API (Apps Script)
- 34. Apps Script & Gemini API ● Command-line interface ● Integrate with git plus your local IDE/dev env. ● Actions ○ Create ○ Pull ○ Push ○ Clone ○ Deploy ○ View logs ● Built on Apps Script API ● developers.google.com/a pps-script/guides/clasp Professional workflow with clasp tool
- 35. 06 Inspiration What you can build with Apps Script & Google APIs Big data analysis to slide presentation Access GCP tools from Google Workspace (formerly G Suite)
- 36. Store big data results
- 37. Visualize big data results Ingest data from Sheets
- 38. Link to chart in Sheets
- 39. Supercharge Workspace (G Suite) with GCP Workspace (G Suite) GCP BigQuery Apps Script Slides Sheets Application request Big data analytics App summary ● Leverage GCP and build the "final mile" with Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) ● Driven by Google Apps Script ● Google BigQuery for data analysis ● Google Sheets for visualization ● Google Slides for presentable results ● "Glued" together w/Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) serverless ● Build this app (codelab): g.co/codelabs/bigquery-sheets-slides ● Video and blog post: bit.ly/2OcptaG ● Application source code: github.com/googlecodelabs/bigquery-sheets-slides ● Presented at Google Cloud NEXT (Jul 2018 [DEV229] & Apr 2019 [DEV212]) ● cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/sf/sessions/session/156878 ● cloud.withgoogle.com/next/sf/sessions?session=DEV212
- 40. Lightweight sales inventory web app Help on-floor sales connect to backoffice
- 41. Sheets Lightweight inventory management system Cloud Functions Cloud Vision Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) GCP Export data Cloud Functions Apps Script Cloud Storage Get inventory Cloud Pub/Sub Analyze image Store image Update shoe CRUD inventory Cloud SQL App summary ● Motivation ● Help sales floor staff with store inventory information ● GCP helps Sheets scale and provide machine learning capabilities ● Web interface for scale and convenience ● Use Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) and GCP APIs to: ● Build friendly web interface (mobile or computer) ● Export Sheets data into Cloud SQL ● Allow users to make information requests ● Add intelligence to data and enhance user experience ● Cloud Functions microservices leveraging Sheets as "glue tool" for user experience ● Application source code: github.com/asrivas/Next2019 ● "Serverless from the Ground Up with GCP & Google Workspace" (Cloud NEXT '19) ● youtu.be/NvCM7OC_5pA
- 42. 07 Wrap-up Summary & resources Apps Script summary ● It’s just JavaScript ● Access to Google plus other online resources ● No API complexity… use authenticated, built-in services ● Serverless… no setup nor deployment required ● Variety of use cases ● Execution as scripts or add-ons ● No longer Google's best kept secret?!?
- 43. Apps Script references + next steps ● Introductory Apps Script codelab ○ g.co/codelabs/apps-script-intro ● Creating your own (custom) functions ○ developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/sheets/functions ● Developer videos, guides, and tutorials ○ developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/videos ● High-level introductory video ○ youtu.be/xDovB0pu4OU ● Official documentation site ○ developers.google.com/apps-script ● Alternative: Google Workspace APIs ○ developers.google.com/gsuite Other Google APIs & platforms ● GCP (cloud-based compute, storage, networking, AI/ML, data analysis tools!) ○ cloud.google.com ● Firebase (mobile development platform and RT DB plus ML-Kit) ○ firebase.google.com and firebase.google.com/docs/ml-kit ● Google Data Studio (data visualization, dashboards, etc.) ○ datastudio.google.com/overview ○ goo.gle/datastudio-course ● Actions on Google/Assistant/DialogFlow (voice apps) ○ developers.google.com/actions ● YouTube (Data, Analytics, and Livestreaming APIs) ○ developers.google.com/youtube ● Google Maps (Maps, Routes, and Places APIs) ○ developers.google.com/maps ● Flutter (native apps [Android, iOS, web] w/1 code base[!]) ○ flutter.dev
- 44. Bring me to your organization ... it is my job to help you! ● Engineering consulting ● Software development ● Technical seminars/tech talks ● Hands-on workshops ● Technical training courses ● Migration strategy & planning ● cyberwebconsulting.com ● appenginemigrations.com Slides you're looking at them now Work cyberwebconsulting.com Books corepython.com Blog dev.to/wescpy Intro post+video t.co/rqHT2gYN6z Automate YT stats goo.gl/nKfBQi goo.gl/SVxoCt Big data ⇒ slides bit.ly/2O9KqDd Progress bars goo.gl/69EJVw Thank you! Questions? Wesley Chun Principal Consultant, CyberWeb Python, GCP & GWS specialist CONTACT: @wescpy@